UCLA Awarded Grant for Plant Gene Study

UCLA has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the McKnight Foundation to establish a predoctoral student training program in the field of plant genes.

J. Philip Thornber, chairman of the university's department of biology, said that the grant will enable UCLA to compete for the best plant molecular biology students in the world. McKnight is a Minneapolis-based foundation that supports human services, the arts, education and scientific research.